Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them sitting where the whole panorama of the mountains stretched sleepily before them. Black boys in white coats slid constantly among them with trays of tall glasses wrapped in white paper napkins. . . . Not a cloud in the sky. All were dreaming and talking of next year's harvest of tourists to Vermont, Yosemite, Miami, Williamsburg. Suddenly the sound of airplanes came from high above us. Hardly a soul looked up. I searched but could see nothing till two small clouds of glistening white like snowflakes showed where a tremendous flock of swans or geese had been split into confusion...
They found a good sugar-beet crop waiting for them, but all the sugar factories wrecked. They set women to harvesting standing wheat and rye, but they had to harvest with scythes and horses instead of modern machinery. They tried to get autumn sowing done, but only put in from 5% to 7% of normal seedings...
Britain's Board of Education last month boasted, probably overoptimistically, that 97.8% of its schoolchildren would soon be back at full-time schooling. In the Midlands and North, the fall semester began late (October), to let pupils help with the late wheat harvest; in London it started early (August), to make up for lost time. London's 128,000 pupils, a third of normal, were on double sessions because two-thirds of London's schools were bomb-or fire-damaged. The teacher shortage is serious: 18,000 schoolmasters have enlisted. British schools this autumn plugged...
...Luftwaffe picked out Britain's east coast invasion ports, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Hull, Dover, Ramsgate. Under a cynical harvest moon bombers dropped high explosives and incendiaries, raked streets with cannon fire. For good measure they repeated the performance two nights later...
...might grant Japan an eleventh-hour reprieve. Squeezed now by the Allied embargo on scrap iron and iron ore (she imports two-thirds of her steel industry's raw materials), and on oil (she imports 93% of her oil), Japan also faced an extraordinarily poor rice harvest, a subnormal fishing catch...